George Newhouse

Clinical Supervisor

Professor Newhouse is the principal solicitor of the National Justice Project where his current work focuses on the treatment of asylum seekers and migrants, and Aboriginal deaths in custody. A graduate of the University of New South Wales, Professor Newhouse has nearly 30 years’ experience working in law in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Professor Newhouse joined JPMorgan in Sydney as a corporate finance executive and was later transferred to JPMorgan's New York office. From New York, he moved to London where he worked for two years as a capital markets lawyer for Clifford Chance.

In 1990, he returned to Sydney and continued working as a lawyer with Swaab & Associates. He became an accredited mediator and was a member of the Consumer Trader Tenancy Tribunal from 1999 to 2007 and a mediator for the Workers Compensation Commission from 2001 to 2010. In addition to his expertise in social justice law, Professor Newhouse specialises in defamation, privacy, negligence, property, finance and planning law.